The second opinion on your software deal. Your name never enters the room.

An independent check on a software deal: we take the vendor's sales call as a disclosed consultancy and send you the recording, the quote, and the claims.

You stay invisible. The vendor meets us: a buying consultancy evaluating for a client we don’t name. What they tell a fresh prospect is the one data point you can’t get while they know who’s asking.

Yes. BaselineQuote takes the vendor's demo or pricing call as a disclosed buying consultancy: $290 flat, recording or structured notes in 48 hours.

Freelance marketplaces can put a body on a call. A buying consultancy that runs a structured extraction (pricing, discount signals, commitments, dodge list) and stands behind a refund policy is a different deliverable. For the calls you can’t skip, sending a proxy is the next best thing.

Send us the quote and the vendor's name. We take the same vendor's sales call blind, mirror your deal shape, and mark every line where their pitch to us differs from their pitch to you.

Quotes move with seats, term, and segment; the report separates structural differences from discretion. What survives that separation is your negotiation position.

Two checks beat guessing: published benchmark data for common vendors, and a fresh-prospect quote for everything the benchmark pools don't cover.

Free benchmark databases cover the big names well. The long tail (new AI tools, agencies, MSPs, niche SaaS) has no benchmark coverage anywhere; there, the only comparison point that exists is what the vendor quotes a stranger today. That’s the check we run. It’s diligence-grade recon, the same discipline diligence teams apply before an acquisition, at a price a single deal justifies.

Within 48 hours of the meeting: the recording, or structured notes with quotes where recording wasn't accepted, plus pricing, discount signals, claims made, and red flags.

Timing truth: vendors control their own calendars, and booking a demo typically runs one to two weeks. If your deal closes sooner, tell us; we’d rather say no than sell you a report that lands late. If the call produces no number, a different consultant on our desk re-runs it, or we refund you.

No. We book calls as what we are: an independent buying consultancy representing an unnamed client. Vendors take these calls every day.

No invented companies, no false names, nothing signed under pretense. Fake-identity mystery shopping produces intel you can’t act on and a burned bridge. A disclosed consultant with an unnamed client is a normal Tuesday for an AE.

We mirror your deal shape in the ask: seats, term, tier. The report states what the vendor assumed, so you know exactly what the gap measures.

A gap between your quote and ours is a negotiation position, not proof of gouging.

No. We arm you instead: before you re-sign, we get the number your vendor gives a new customer today, and you walk into the renewal holding it.

Negotiation services exist and negotiate in your name. We stay recon-only by design: your vendor never learns you checked, and nothing gets committed by a third party. Deploy the information as benchmark-speak (“we understand pricing in this range is available”); nobody asks where benchmarks come from.

Yours only. We take no vendor money: no referral fees, no spiffs, no affiliate links. Nothing pooled, resold, or shared without your written consent.

The report is work product for you alone. We’d rather sell you one honest check than be owed favors by the people we’re checking.

$290 per check, flat. An alternatives pack, three vendors, is $690. Posted prices, no call required.

Send the vendor, your deal shape (seats, term, tier), and the three questions you need answered. First check $290, delivered inside 48 hours of the meeting.

Email [email protected], or use the desk intake form and name the vendor in the spec field. A person replies with scope, a committed timeline, and the payment link.